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A Ghost Town With a Quad

﻿“A Ghost Town With a Quad” was written by Rebecca Schuman, an education columnist, and published by Slate.com on November 26th, 2013. In this article, the author argues that it was wrong of two schools’ administration: Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM), and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to cut from their schools what were considered vital academic departments when other things could have been cut instead. Also, by cutting the academics, they have made their universities into wastelands which will have a negative influence on other universities facing a similar situation.

The author opens by listing some of the departments that had been cut, and goes on to explain why she thinks the universities administration decided to cut valuable academics rather than other disciplines such as sports. Next, Schuman discusses the faculty and how it is easier for the universities to drop entire departments rather than laying-off the highest paid professors. She then proceeds to argue that this was a poor choice because there weren’t that many of the highly-paid professors in the departments cut by MSUM and UDC.

Schuman then states that there is no purpose in arguing about which departments were cut because it distracts from the larger problem of why academics were only being cut. Next, Schuman makes it known that the faculty no longer has power over things such as budget cuts anymore which leaves all of the financial decisions up to the administration, who definitely aren’t going to take money out of their own pockets. The author also states that the universities’ administration would rather have amenities because they believe amenities boost the enrollment rates at the universities.

The last four paragraphs transition into Schuman’s main argument: - without the academic departments of the universities, the campus will become nothing but a “ghost town”, with no purpose and an inability to do what a college is supposed to.Lastly, Schuman...

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